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[david_e]

If a boat is built in 2001 but sold and registered (warranties etc) in 2002 - is it a 2001 or 2002 boat in the wadvert when you come to sell it?

I am thinking of cars that can be built in one year and sold the next, they are always advertised as the year registered.

 

[Searush]

Cars are often advertised as 200X MY, where MY stands for Model Year. Why not sell it as Registered 2002 - it's true enough. How much annual depreciation is there on boats anyway? I always buy them when they are old enough to be apreciating!

 

[savageseadog]

Thought this was going to be another cat thread. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Searush]

We've had enough of animal posts in the Lounge thank you.

 

[duncan]

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Why not sell it as Registered 2002

[/ QUOTE ] well the HIN number is going to tell you when it was built and you don't carry a great big ID plate telling everyone else the age of your boat like a car number plate (ignoring sail numbers of course!) so at the end of the day you can tell people, in full honestly,

1. year hull built ('cos they can look at it on your hull anyway
2. when it was launched - if you think they care

what may however be relevant is the 'model year' if any significant cahnges were made - however manufacturers aren't slow to revise the model numbers themselves now when changes are introduced so there's not much value in that anymore!